The man accused of attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar during a Tuesday evening town hall meeting in Minnesota is a “piece of s**t” with lifelong anger issues who has been fixated on the Somali-born lawmaker – and the Somali diaspora in general – for years, his younger brother told The Independent.
“I’m not surprised this happened,” Anthony James Kazmierczak’s brother said Wednesday morning in a phone interview from his home in North Carolina. “Not at all. Unfortunately, he and my mother are both right-wing extremists.”
Kazmierczak, a 55-year-old Minneapolis resident, is “just a different person than I am,” according to the brother, who said he has been estranged from his sibling for the past four years. The Independent agreed not to name the brother, who said he has begun receiving death threats.
“I believe in helping people,” Kazmierczak’s brother, 52, went on. “He believes in blaming people.”
When asked if Kazmierczak had mentioned Omar before, the brother responded, “Oh, yeah,” and said he is thankful the Somali-born Democratic legislator, who fled her war-torn nation as a child and became a U.S. citizen in 2000, wasn’t badly hurt. Kazmierczak’s antipathy toward Somali-Americans, whose presence in Minneapolis makes up the largest Somali population in the U.S., dates back to well before Omar was elected in 2019, according to the brother.
“He has had a hatred of the Somali community for probably 20 years,” Kazmierczak’s brother continued. “There’s a reason I don’t talk to him… He’s got a lot of anger, I have no idea where it comes from. He’s always been that way. In and out of treatment since he was a kid.”
During Omar’s address to a group of constituents last night at the Urban League Twin Cities, Kazmierczak suddenly stood up and rushed the progressive congresswoman as she called for abolishing ICE, the country’s deportation agency. Video of the bizarre incident shows Kazmierczak spraying an unidentified substance at Omar from a syringe in his right hand, which initial reports described as “foul-smelling.”
A security guard tackled Kazmierczak, who was subsequently arrested by police and booked on one count of third-degree assault. Omar, the first Somali-American to serve in Congress, asked for a napkin to wipe herself off but declined further medical attention and continued speaking to the crowd of roughly 100 attendees.
Read more“He’s crazy,” Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent. “He needs help, period... In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t.”
Brother calls Ilhan Omar suspect ‘right-wing extremist,’ has hated Somalis for years
Exclusive: ‘In my mind, he’s a piece of s**t,’ Anthony Kazmierczak’s brother told The Independent
It was wrong what this man did but I will use her own words - she belongs in the dustbin, has a history of spewing "hateful rhetoric," "white hatred," and "bigotry".
These are all the things that she said about Charlie but they fit her better.
Obviously this man has mental health issues but his brother and Brother Lover will have less empathy for this man that they will have for an invader that raped and murdered a 12 year old girl.
She also voted against the Laken Riley Act.
President Trump told ABC News, “No. I don’t think about her. I think she’s a fraud. I really don’t think about that. She probably had herself sprayed, knowing her.”
